[CLUE-Talk] interesting home business article - from slashdot

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Saturday 26 July 2003 02:38 am, Evan Widger wrote:

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>
> the main problem with my programming knowledge is that it's all from books
> and little from real life. conversly all my computer OS and hardware
> knowledge is all from real life with no degrees or certificates to back me
> up. i'd be happy to take a look at whatever you're doing and help if i can
> but i must admit i'm not as good as most people, conversly i underestimate
> my own abilities sometimes, too.

you gotta practice. If you can get a job, great. If not, then do OSS.

>
> the spam guard software sounds alot like spamgourmet (www.spamgourmet.com)
> which creates email addresses with unique IDs in them and numbers telling
> how many emails to get form that recipient. it forwards them to a real
> account and after the address has been used up however many times, it eats
> the rest. your program sounds more like something people/businesses could
> impliment on their own, though. i'll be happy to look at what you have for
> the stuff you're doing, though i can't promise anything i'll enjoy the
> learning experience if nothing else.

wow. cool stuff.I did not know about it. It is very similar. Thanx 
 
The only real difference is that they are doing turn based where I am time 
based. Also, this is designed to run on small business or at home. I am an 
avid believer that all homes should have a small server which handles your 
blogs, family webserver, pix, e-mail, etc. 
Several other difference;

1) When these expire, I will be setting a forwarding address. Spammers almost 
never get return mail so it is somewhat safe. It will still be forwarding to 
an ephemeral alias.

2) I am thinking of creating a la brae tarpit for postfix for these expired 
addresses. I figure if I can't stop them, then I will simply slow them down. 
I have also been thinking of slowing down anything from an exchange server 
and/or Outlook. almost all the spam that I have seen involves both. pretty 
sad.


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cheers
g.r.r.
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